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- noun A variety of
white grape .
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Examples
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It is there that Finley started producing wines from rare varietals such as Chasselas, Madeline Angevine, Müller-Thurgau and Siegerrebe (they also produce, depending on the yields and the weather a bit of Chardonnay, Dry Riesling, Cab/Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Lemberger, Merlot and Pinot Noir).
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The whites -- led by the signature grape, Chasselas -- are nutty and pure, while the reds, led by Pinot Noir, are fairly light but let the fruit shine through.
Seeking Swiss Wines 2008
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In Lausanne, Switzerland, Marie and Bill Fischer and several friends opened a number of wines, including one that a guest bought in 1976, "a 1975 Chasselas from a vineyard that we can see from our dining-room window."
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In most places Chasselas is considered inconsequential, but on the wickedly steep slopes of Dézaley it is supposed to make its most interesting wines, so I grab them whenever a beverage director has the stones to put them on the list.
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Dézaley is a grand Cru region of Switzerland and the grape they grow is Chasselas.
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Dézaley is a grand Cru region of Switzerland and the grape they grow is Chasselas.
Augieland: 2005
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In most places Chasselas is considered inconsequential, but on the wickedly steep slopes of Dézaley it is supposed to make its most interesting wines, so I grab them whenever a beverage director has the stones to put them on the list.
Augieland: 2005
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Harvest Burgundy for red, and Chasselas for Chablis.
The Cook's Decameron: a study in taste, containing over two hundred recipes for Italian dishes W. G. Waters
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Chasselas -- Laurel was familiar with these names from frequent horticultural questionings -- had been laid down in cold frames for later transplanting; and from them the old man, her palm tightly held in his, trod ponderously to the currant bushes massed against the closed arcade of the stables, the wood and coal and store houses, across the rear of the place.
Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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There were the Muscatel, and there were the Chasselas hanging
Euterpe 1909
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